Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts, Oh My! Electronic Media in the Classroom


Book Description

Offers teachers and school administrators practical suggestions for using blogs, wikis, and podcasts to organize and manage classrooms, aid in professional development, and help students achieve.




Blogs, Wikis, and Podacasts, Oh, My!


Book Description

Offers teachers and school administrators practical suggestions for using blogs, wikis, and podcasts to organize and manage classrooms, aid in professional development, and help students achieve.




Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes


Book Description

"This book gives readers a better idea of what is likely to facilitate discussion online, what is likely to encourage collaborative meaning-making, what is likely to encourage productive, supportive, engaged discussion, and what is likely to foster critical thinking"--Provided by publisher.




Organized Teacher, Happy Classroom


Book Description

Bring Out the Best In Your Students Classrooms are busy places full of people, activities, and materials. Keeping them organized can be a challenge, but an organized classroom is essential and allows students and the teacher to fully focus on learning by eliminating distractions. Organized Teacher, Happy Classroom provides practical, proven methods for maintaining an organized classroom throughout the entire school year. Inside you’ll find: • Strategies for managing students’ papers, curriculum material, and essential paperwork • Time management tips to maximize your instruction time and lesson planning • Organizing systems you can teach your students to improve self reliance and accountability • Checklists for starting and ending the year well organized • Helpful forms and templates you can use in your classroom • Plans for arranging a classroom that promotes positive student participation • Support to simplify your classroom • Efficient storage solutions for all teacher and student materials Whether you teach primary, intermediate, middle school or high school, this book will help you organize your time, paperwork, and classroom spaces.




Understanding the World of User-Generated Content


Book Description

Today, more people than ever before are participating in the online world. It's relatively simple for anyone to create their own Web sites and blogs, post music and videos online, provide feedback on the sites they visit, and even help edit online encyclopedias. This book provides a clear and comprehensive guide To The vast world of user-generated information found online. The reader will be shown how to determine good information from bad, As well as how to participate in Web 2.0-or the interactive online world.




Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms


Book Description

Intended for educators of various levels and disciplines who want to understand the Internet tools and learn how to use them effectively in the classroom, this work offers advice on how teachers and students can use the Web to learn more, create more, and communicate better.




Tep Vol 27-N4


Book Description

Teacher Education and Practice, a peer-refereed journal, is dedicated to the encouragement and the dissemination of research and scholarship related to professional education. The journal is concerned, in the broadest sense, with teacher preparation, practice and policy issues related to the teaching profession, as well as being concerned with learning in the school setting. The journal also serves as a forum for the exchange of diverse ideas and points of view within these purposes. As a forum, the journal offers a public space in which to critically examine current discourse and practice as well as engage in generative dialogue. Alternative forms of inquiry and representation are invited, and authors from a variety of backgrounds and diverse perspectives are encouraged to contribute. Teacher Education & Practice is published by Rowman & Littlefield.




Using Social Media in the Classroom


Book Description

Request and receive an e-inspection copy today! How much do you know about using social media in your teaching? Using Social Media in the Classroom is an essential guide to Web 2.0 sites and services, providing both an overview of different types of digital technologies as well as constructive guidance on how to safely and intelligently use them as tools for learning. This comprehensive, accessible textbook combines practical information on using all forms of social media for educational purposes and provides indispensable advice on how to tackle issues arising from social media use in the classroom. Analysis of important contemporary topics is also included: digital literacy and new modes of learning digital participation and overcoming the 'digital divide' cyberbullying and understanding risk online An accompanying Wiki website including additional resources and handouts supporting the book can be found at www.sagepub.co.uk/poore allowing you access to Megan, her additional resources, and any other materials other students post and share. This is crucial reading for all students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teacher education courses, and practising teachers seeking to improve their understanding of using social media for teaching in informed and appropriate ways. Megan Poore is Assistant Professor in Teacher Education at the University of Canberra.







Web-Based Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications


Book Description

"This comprehensive collection offers a compendium of research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of online learning technologies, addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with the creation and management of Web-based applications and communities, instructional design, personalized learning environments, and effective educational delivery"--Provided by publisher.